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CAN DOGS SMELL WHEN YOU ARE STRESSED?
Dogs have been trained to sniff drugs and bombs, but
their most impressive olfactory
feat might be their ability to smell
when people are stressed. Though
this likely comes as little surprise
to dog owners, who are often well
acquainted with their canines’
emotional intelligence, it’s still an
impressive skill. A recent study showed that acute psychological stress produces changes in the odor profile of human sweat and breath, which dogs can detect with 93.75% accuracy. This was determined over the course of 720 trials in which samples were taken before and after people performed a high-stress task that increased their blood pressure and heart rate. The most skilled pup in the trials was able to detect the difference between samples at 96.88% accuracy.
To say that dogs’ sense of smell is stronger than ours would be an understatement, even though the human sense
of smell is better than was long believed. Some dogs have hundreds of millions of smell receptors in their noses (humans have 5 million to 6 million), and the olfactory bulb in their brain is 30 times larger than ours. Overall, dog noses are thought to be 100,000 times more sensitive than ours, which is either a blessing or a curse depending on what you’d be smelling at any given time.
Summer Solstice
Let’s get on with some fun facts about the June solstice:
1. “Solstice” comes from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). On the
summer solstice, the Sun’s path stops advancing northward each day and appears to stop in the sky before going back the other way.
2. On the solstice, the Sun reaches its northernmost
position, reaching the Tropic of
Cancer and standing still before reversing direction and starting to move south again. (See illustration above.) In fact, that’s how the Tropic of Cancer got its name. A few thousand years ago, the solstice happened when the Sun was in the constellation of Cancer the Crab.
3. On the summer solstice, you may observe that the Sun’s path across the sky is curved—NOT a straight line. It appears to rise and keeps veering to the right as it passes high overhead. This is quite different from the laser-straight path the Sun moves along in late March and late September, near the equinoxes.
4. You may also observe that the midday Sun is highest up in the sky (or, lowest if you live in the Southern Hemisphere). But did you know that the Sun’s highest point is getting lower and lower over time? That’s because Earth’s tilt is slowly decreasing.
5. It may be the “longest day,” but it’s not the latest sunset or the earliest sunrise! The earliest sunrises happen before the summer solstice, and the latest sunsets happen after the summer solstice. See it for yourself wherever you live.
6. In India, the summer solstice ends the six-month period when spiritual growth is supposedly easiest. Better hurry, you only have a few days left!
7. On this day, the Sun rises farthest left on the horizon and sets at its rightmost possible spot. Sunlight strikes places in your home that get illuminated at no other time.
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